One of the heroes of Monday's dramatic rescue of college student Brandon Wright from beneath a burning car in Logan, Utah, told TODAY Wednesday that he believed he was only recovering a body for burial.

"The truth is, I thought we were just removing the car from a body," construction worker Mike Johnson told Savannah Guthrie live from Utah Wednesday. "I just did't think the body should burn with the car."
Then a lady got down on her belly and stared under there, right into the flames. She yelled out that "he's alive," and after she said that, everyone just converged on the car and lifted. I don't know who she was, but that lady did a great service.

The saving of 21-year-old Wright has become a national feel-good story, fueled by dramatically clear video of the rescue captured by an office worker in a nearby building. As the video shows, just seconds after Wright grounded his motorcycle to avoid a collision with a black BMW and slid under the burning vehicle, an ad hoc rescue team assembled to lift the car out from on top of him.